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With midterm campaigning heating up, political rhetoric is hitting new heights of hyperbole, from both sides. From the "unprecedented" raid on Mar-a-Lago to the withered, dementia rattled mummy who is the nominal head of the nation calling his political opponents "semi-fascists", the left is bonkers over the idea that people voting for people they don't like and requiring ID to vote somehow amounts to ending democracy. The right, on the other hand, is wild with the idea that all leftists and teachers are secret pedophiles grooming kids into some kind of depraved Marxist sex slaves, and that the Democrats are intentionally sinking the country to please their WEF masters.
I suppose that there are reasonable examples of some of these things, grabbed onto by political opportunists and emphasized to demonize an entire political movement. As someone who voted for Trump in 2020 (I sat out 2016 entirely), and as someone who refused to participate in the current faddish medical experiment pushed by the Biden administration, I'm getting used to being scapegoated and marginalized by the vocal political left at this point (a place I used to consider my political home until about 2010, when I realized how full of crap Obama was with his promises of Change and Hope). I still get along with most of the Democrats I know in my life, but I won't deny it's gotten more strained since the Trump days.
I'm not a big fan of the way Trump conducted himself after the 2020 election for that matter, which I do think was plagued by irregularities that influenced the course of the election in ways both minor and major (if you don't think so, I'd encourage you to break outside your bubble and look into it). I'm not sure it amounts to having stolen the election per se, but it was irregular. When I did social work, we were told that it was imperative to even avoid the appearance of wrong-doing, which the government failed mightily to do. It was definitely enough to cast a pall over Biden's dubious victory to anyone with an ounce of skepticism. It's also amusing to me that a party that rigged their own election to nominate Hillary Clinton ahead of Bernie Sanders clutches their pearls when someone else accuses them of election fraud. That the same people who denied her loss in 2016 and accused Trump of stealing the election are now leveling charges of insurrection at those who accuse Biden of the same makes it especially rich.
I'm not really thrilled with my de facto party now, as I think that by and large Republicans are pretty useless except for catering to their wealthy donors (they pay less lip service to giving a crap about the poor, which makes them a bit less hypocritical than the virtue signalling leftist variety of political parasite). Whatever the reality of anthropogenic climate change (I personally do think that human activity is influencing the climate, for what it's worth), for me the Republican party's unwillingness to address fossil fuel depletion and environmental issues is a real weakness. Many Republicans also have positions on corporate welfare and the like that I disagree with, as well as a contempt for the more impoverished populist wing of their own party that I think is smug and repugnant (words that sum up Mitch McConnell pretty well in my view). I also have no use for Mike Pence and the more extreme Religious Right wing of the party; as a member of a minority faith that pretty often found themselves literally getting burned at the stake in the not-too-distant past, I have pretty grave reservations about putting a bunch of Apocalypse mongering religious zealots in power (no offense intended to any Christian person reading this, I respect the faith, just not the marriage of Christianity and politics the Republicans have going on).
All that said, I'll be voting Republican in the midterms, and for the forseeable future, because I have become a single issue voter, and that single issue is vaccine mandates. The Democrats pushed them, the Republicans didn't, and that's literally the only thing I'm considering until after 2024 at least. If the illegitimate dictator-in-chief and his cronies don't like it, they can kiss my Ultra Maga semi-fascist ass.
I suppose that there are reasonable examples of some of these things, grabbed onto by political opportunists and emphasized to demonize an entire political movement. As someone who voted for Trump in 2020 (I sat out 2016 entirely), and as someone who refused to participate in the current faddish medical experiment pushed by the Biden administration, I'm getting used to being scapegoated and marginalized by the vocal political left at this point (a place I used to consider my political home until about 2010, when I realized how full of crap Obama was with his promises of Change and Hope). I still get along with most of the Democrats I know in my life, but I won't deny it's gotten more strained since the Trump days.
I'm not a big fan of the way Trump conducted himself after the 2020 election for that matter, which I do think was plagued by irregularities that influenced the course of the election in ways both minor and major (if you don't think so, I'd encourage you to break outside your bubble and look into it). I'm not sure it amounts to having stolen the election per se, but it was irregular. When I did social work, we were told that it was imperative to even avoid the appearance of wrong-doing, which the government failed mightily to do. It was definitely enough to cast a pall over Biden's dubious victory to anyone with an ounce of skepticism. It's also amusing to me that a party that rigged their own election to nominate Hillary Clinton ahead of Bernie Sanders clutches their pearls when someone else accuses them of election fraud. That the same people who denied her loss in 2016 and accused Trump of stealing the election are now leveling charges of insurrection at those who accuse Biden of the same makes it especially rich.
I'm not really thrilled with my de facto party now, as I think that by and large Republicans are pretty useless except for catering to their wealthy donors (they pay less lip service to giving a crap about the poor, which makes them a bit less hypocritical than the virtue signalling leftist variety of political parasite). Whatever the reality of anthropogenic climate change (I personally do think that human activity is influencing the climate, for what it's worth), for me the Republican party's unwillingness to address fossil fuel depletion and environmental issues is a real weakness. Many Republicans also have positions on corporate welfare and the like that I disagree with, as well as a contempt for the more impoverished populist wing of their own party that I think is smug and repugnant (words that sum up Mitch McConnell pretty well in my view). I also have no use for Mike Pence and the more extreme Religious Right wing of the party; as a member of a minority faith that pretty often found themselves literally getting burned at the stake in the not-too-distant past, I have pretty grave reservations about putting a bunch of Apocalypse mongering religious zealots in power (no offense intended to any Christian person reading this, I respect the faith, just not the marriage of Christianity and politics the Republicans have going on).
All that said, I'll be voting Republican in the midterms, and for the forseeable future, because I have become a single issue voter, and that single issue is vaccine mandates. The Democrats pushed them, the Republicans didn't, and that's literally the only thing I'm considering until after 2024 at least. If the illegitimate dictator-in-chief and his cronies don't like it, they can kiss my Ultra Maga semi-fascist ass.
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